Maris A. Vinovskis is an American academic and historian at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and a leading authority on U.S. social and family history. He is the A. M. and H. P. Bentley Professor of History and a Professor of Public Policy,

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, often referred to as the Ford School, is the public policy school at the University of Michigan. Founded in 1914 to train municipal administration experts, the school was named after University of Mi ...

. Vinovskis acts as a senior research scientist in the Institute of Social Research. He is a former chairman of the department of history. Vinovskis holds a Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He has received a

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and was elected to the National Academy of Education, the International Academy of Education, and President of the History of Education Society. In 1978, Vinovskis was the Deputy Staff Director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Population and served as a consultant on population and adolescent pregnancy issues in the

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in the early 1980s. During both the

George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker BushSince around 2000, he has been usually called George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior, Bush 41 or Bush the Elder to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president from 2001 to 2009; pr ...

and

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

administrations, he worked as a Research Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) on questions of educational research and policy. Vinovskis was a member of the congressionally mandated Independent Review Panels for

Goals 2000 The National Educational Goals, also known as the Goals 2000 Act were set by the U.S. Congress in the 1990s to set goals for standards-based education reform. The intent was for certain criteria to be met by the millennium (2000). Many of these go ...

and

No Child Left Behind The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standards-based education ...

Publications

* ''The Origins of Public High Schools'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985) * ''An "Epidemic" of Adolescent Pregnancy?'' (Oxford University Press, 1988) * ''Education, Society and Economic Opportunity''" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995) * ''History and Educational Policymaking'' (Yale University Press, 1999) * ''Revitalizing Federal Education Research''(University of Michigan Press, 2001) * ''The Birth of Head Start'' (University of Chicago Press, 2005) * ''From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind'' (Teachers College Press, 2009).

External links

Vinovskis/University of Michigan
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